Wordpress Plugin: GK Steemit Info
Today I present you with another wordpress plugin GK Steemit Info that allows wordpress powered sites to easily display steemit related info via widgets and/or shortcodes
Purpose of the plugin
The plugin serves as a means to add, into your current wordpress installation, one or more widgets/shortcodes that allow displaying steemit related info.
At the moment, we created the functionality to fetch and display the number of total users on steemit at current moment in time, auto-refreshing every few seconds. By default it refreshes every 5 seconds, with the capacity to make the refresh rate slower on a user defined value. This can be edited on a widget or shortcode level.
This serves as potentially useful info for you, your site visitor, and more importantly can be a good marketing tool to steemit as well to capture more signups.
Coding the plugin
As a standard wordpress plugin, we utilized PHP as back end language, but also jquery, CSS+HTML for front end display and processing. We also relied on steemjs library for fetching the steemit API info.
steemjs is available for connectivity via CDN link: https://cdn.steemjs.com/lib/latest/steem.min.js
Utilizing the plugin
After setting up the plugin and successfully activating it, you would have new widget available called Steemit Info Widget, which can be easily dragged and dropped into any widget section you would like to add it into. The widget allows configuring the title but also the refresh rate of the ticket.
Alternatively, you could also use the shortcode version to place the info anywhere in your code or on any page using the following shortcode format:
[steemit_user_count refresh_frequency=5000]
Downloading the plugin
The plugin is available on the official GitHub repository.
The most recent commit is accessible via this link
Feel free to check it out and use it. Let me know should you have any questions :)
Thank you
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Great work , well planed everything is placed in a very systematic order. Ourstanding work just mervalous
thank you as always !
you're welcome bro ^^
Thank you for the contribution. It has been approved.
Oh man, there is so much potential here! Love what you are doing - plugins like this will go a long way to helping the Steem blockchain go mainstream.
Will you be adding this to the wordpress plugins list?
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Good job mohamad, you did amazing plugins
Thank you Moustafa !
Thanks dutch :)
yea definitely have plans for doing so, i still want to grow the plugin further like you said to cover more and more functionalities before listing it there.
great work! I think @steem-ambassador and www.promo-steem.com would like to be in touch to discuss how we can collaborate ;)
Thank you @starkerz ! Sure would be more than happy to collaborate. What you guys are doing is fantastic for the community!
I have been looking for a plugin to integrate Steemit into my Wordpress Website for quite some time. I am currently using Steemit Feed, but the performance is the absolute worst.
I will give your plugin a try when I find the time, thank you for your work!
glad to hear!
the plugin at the moment provides some basic functionality, yet i will keep adding in functionality to it to provide the most potential including data feeds for steemit posts.
Stay tuned :)
Sounds great! A working Steemit integration for Wordpress will really help Steemit to grow.
very good and clear.
thank you
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This one is going to help wordpress blogger as well as blog reader. Thanks for creating it!